My phone company just offered for my 768/128 kbps A-DSL connection an upgrade option to 1500/384 kbps for a few Euros more... I'm living on the country, not in a (big) city.This is nice, but can't compete with typical Japanese and Korean internet users who have even higher uploads than my download rate is. Also they're Linux and Java friendly and don't like the Xbox (hark hark)... Will this be the Java market of tomorrow? :-)

Regardless of the numbers that get shouted about, broadband is definatly not the norm here in the Uk, and doesn't look likely to be for at least a couple of years (and even then its going to be pretty narrow).

The setup, costs and hastle just arn't worth it for the avarage person (whether true or not, thats the attitude). Getting Ntl or whoever to actually come round to a house to install the acess points is a long, tedious process. And typically they can only turn up during working hours. Compare that to setting up a modem account where you can just bung in a cd, answer a few questions and be done.

Short answer... no. I don't have to embed it, I already paid £500 for JET, which is both faster and smaller. But I just wanted to prove that it can be done The tiny volumes of AF involved don't, er, hurt Sun financially in any conceivable way, but they do make for quite a showcase of embedded VMs solving day-to-day developers' problems.

Even if you have a linker as described, the OS is still being updated underneath you on a regular basis, so what is the difference. Largely it is a matter of better quality control at the OS level (although Windows users may beg to differ :-) ). I certainly use applications which although fully linked, display at least cosmetic defects after the system is upgraded to XP.So an alternative is to just eliminate regressions in new versions of Java ! :-) OK that is wishful thinking but we could at least hope that the number of deliberate changes (mostly in Swing behaviour) will reduce substantially as the software becomes more mature.

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